DevOpsDays Boston 2023
2023-10-16..2023-10-17
Boston, United States
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who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, security engineers, engineering managers, data engineers, software engineers
topics
CI/CD pipeline security and rotation; OIDC short-lived pipeline tokens; OpenTelemetry collector and exemplars; value stream network mapping with Gephi; observability as data analytics; GitOps with Flux and Tekton; ELT for operational metrics with Airbyte and DBT; synthetic monitoring promoted to production; least privilege pragmatic controls; platform health and team evolution; burnout assessment and Clifton Strengths; SaaS and Kubernetes cost optimization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Fifteen Years of Excess Has Lead to the DevOps Hangover | Pete Cheslock | 31m |
Argues that a 15‑year ZIRP era fuels a DevOps hangover: unchecked spending on Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog and 3rd‑party SaaS (avg 100+ SaaS tools) creates… | ||
| Securing your CICD Pipeline | Sharon Goldberg | 34m |
CircleCI’s January breach exposes how CI/CD pipelines hold high-privilege deploy keys, forcing teams to rotate secrets for a week to six weeks and in one case… | ||
| Make Your Value Stream Network Visible | Chris Gallivan | 30m |
Claims the number one barrier to flow is the hidden value stream network, not teams or code, showing a concrete example where a customer-request sits 46 weeks… | ||
| Observability? It's a Data Analytics Problem, You Fool! | Dotan Horovits | 36m |
Claim: observability is a data analytics problem not just logs+metrics+traces. Concrete moves include adopting OpenTelemetry and its collector, adding… | ||
| DevSecOps Ain't That Hard, a Framework | Alexandre Pauwels | 31m |
Claim: a generic DevSecOps cloud is built at home on my dime using open-source tools and deployable immediately. Implementation uses Terraform bootstrapping… | ||
| Banishing Burnout: Its Time to Thrive at Your Workplace | Colleen DelVecchio | 35m |
Title signals concrete claims: a QR burnout quiz and Gallup data that 76% of employees experiencing burnout set the problem scale, plus Mayo Clinic framing… | ||
| Platform Health: A team model of platform evolution | Jeff Brainerd | 31m |
A small platform team at Jellyfish balances scalability, reliability, developer velocity and FinOps while the company grows from under 20 to over 200 people… | ||
| Least Privilege In The Age of Thinking Machines | Jon Bass | 31m |
Claims that automation alone fixes least privilege give brittle, postponed solutions; the concrete proposal is to run a risk assessment spreadsheet, prioritize… | ||
| Data Pipelines for Operational Metrics | Neil Davies | 35m |
OM1 builds an as‑code ELT pipeline that pulls monitoring, CI/CD, test, security, cost, incident and issue data into a Snowflake lakehouse using Airbyte with… | ||
| DevOpsDays Boston 2023 Lightning Talks: Jason Li | Jason Li | 06m |
A career switch into tech earlier in 2023 results in landing an IT help desk role and completing a 7-month accelerated AWS DevOps engineering program, gaining… | ||
| DevOpsDays Boston 2023 Lightning Talks: Daniel Paulus | Daniel Paulus | 04m |
Synthetic monitoring is concrete: it promotes existing end-to-end tests to production so they run them on a schedule, produce metrics and give a clear signal… | ||
| DevOpsDays Boston 2023 Lightning Talks: James King | James King | 05m |
Legacy pipeline starts with an NFS share and a Cron job that feeds a Big Data warehouse, scales into custom secure transports and duplicate OpenTelemetry… | ||
| DevOpsDays Boston 2023 Lightning Talks: Muyiwa Kolayemi | Muyiwa Kolayemi | 06m |
A farmer-turned-engineer describes concrete parallels: learning via AWS restart, moving from planting cassava to building automation at slon build, and using… | ||
| DevOpsDays Boston 2023 Lightning Talks: Anton Gurov | Anton Gurov | 05m |
Endurance racing maps to startups through concrete practices: commit fully on clear stretches with gas pedal to the floor rather than coasting, use pit crews… | ||
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